Google vs Scaleway
Split decision: Google is cheaper in 1 of the 3 contested categories, Scaleway in 2. Neither is the cheaper provider outright.
Category by category
Each provider's cheapest published option in each category, on the axis that category is billed on. A dash means they do not sell into it.
| Category | Rate | Scaleway | Rate | Cheaper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & edge delivery | Google Cloud CDN | $0.080 | — | — | only one competes |
| Cloud compute & VPS | Google Compute Engine | $0.048 | Scaleway Instances | $0.0060 | Scaleway7.9× cheaper |
| GPU cloud | Google Cloud A3 | $6.98 | — | — | only one competes |
| Object storage | Google Cloud Storage | $0.020 | Scaleway Object Storage | $0.018 | Scaleway1.1× cheaper |
| Managed databases | Google Cloud SQL | $9.37 | Scaleway Managed Database | $13.00 | Google1.4× cheaper |
About each provider
Headquartered in US · 6 priced services
Google Cloud for infrastructure and the Gemini API for models. Compute pricing is competitive with AWS, and sustained-use discounts apply automatically rather than requiring a commitment.
Scaleway
Headquartered in FR · 3 priced services
A French cloud with EU data residency as its main pitch, covering compute, object storage, and managed databases at rates between Hetzner and the hyperscalers.
Questions
- Is Google or Scaleway cheaper in 2026?
- Split decision: Google is cheaper in 1 of the 3 contested categories, Scaleway in 2. Neither is the cheaper provider outright. Picking a provider on an aggregate "cheaper" verdict is usually a mistake — what matters is which of them is cheaper in the categories you actually buy.
- What does Google offer that Scaleway does not?
- In this dataset: CDN & edge delivery, GPU cloud. Scaleway has no priced equivalent in those categories.
- What does Scaleway offer that Google does not?
- Nothing in this dataset — every category Scaleway sells into, Google sells into as well.
- Should I use both?
- Often the cheapest answer, and the table above shows where the seams are. Splitting workloads across providers costs you cross-provider data transfer and a second bill to reason about, so it pays off when the per-category gap is large and the traffic between them is small.